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Interesting listen

Revisado: 04-28-19

This is a great documentary. The only thing that is a little annoying is the author making this story out to be more than it really is. It did not result in anyone's death and it does not have any cosmic significance. It is just an interesting story of very interesting characters trying to negotiate challenging circumstances and unexpected success. It also provides a glimpse into the music scene and provides more evidence of how industries and companies manipulate our emotions to sell products. This is a great (and pretty short) listen.

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Candidate for worst audiobook ever

Revisado: 04-20-19

I really have no idea what the author was trying to convey with this story. The plot is a rambling mess involving aliens, mad genetic science, secret societies, ancient mythology, witches, a pandemic, and post-apocalypse America. The characters are awful in that they have no voice of their own and just seem like the author's voice in different scenarios. Maybe the only good thing that I can say is that he tries to create many minority characters, but the main character that saves the day is the familiar white male. The main character is truly boring as he is a disgraced gumshoe on a road to redemption. The audiobook is unnecessarily crude in that it uses a $#!tload of profanity in a way that adds absolutely nothing to the story. He seems to just use profanity because he thinks it's cool and edgy. He also has some ridiculously nasty scenes also without clear reason. For example, a man says "I have never seen you so hard" to his homosexual lover who is standing naked, pointing a gun at him, and about to kill him. You will definitely wish that you had the 10 hours spent listening to this audiobook back when you have finished with it.

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The title should be changed

Revisado: 06-02-18

I am sure that this book will really annoy any Scots. The actual battle occupies and very small portion of this book. It really is just a Who's Who of British officers who were associated with this battle. Being an American, I did enjoy the accounts of North American military history. Come to think of it, there was much more information on events in North America in this book than there is on Culloden. It is a well-written and interesting book for those who like military histories, but you will have to go elsewhere to get a complete account of Culloden.

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Clear Southern Bias

Revisado: 06-02-18

This is a pretty good story, but it is very difficult to accept any of it as fact given the author's clear bias towards the southern side of the Civil War. He often proposes and often repeats nonsensical southern statements such as the Civil War being fought over "a way of life" instead of over slavery and that slaves just loved their masters and slaves were viewed as members of the southern family. (His description of slave life had me wanting to sign up to be a slave myself). He is also pretty biased in other ways too. For example, in describing what he clearly felt was the wrongful deaths of two of Jack Hinson's sons, he refers to them as "boys" when their ages were 17 and 22. It seems as though he uses the term "boys" to generate more sympathy. I'd also forgive a northern officer for thinking that two armed men hiding in the woods near his detachment in hostile territory were a threat to him and his men. The author seems to work very hard to paint Jack Hinson as a heroic and honorable man. Jack Hinson may have been such a man, I just have trouble accepting it when it comes from such a biased source and some facts seem to argue against this. For example, the author says that Jack Hinson just hated killing so many men, yet he kept track of how many he killed on his gun. He also seems to wildly inflate the number of men that Jack Hinson actually killed. The book does have some good accounts of Grant, Forrest, and the western theater of the Civil War. All things considered, I do not recommend this book. I wanted to read a history book, not a southern propaganda work of fiction (or at least hyperbole).

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